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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!beta.nedernet.nl!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Window Manager Problem Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:50:34 +0200 Organization: Systemics Ltd. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <31A434EA.58EEE8E@systemics.com> References: <4o02dl$15gk@news.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mainstreet.support.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate2.8.31) arisia@gate.net wrote: > > I gave up on the Diamond Stealth 2001 video card and installed a Number 9 > Motion 771 card. > > Solaris likes it. > > FreeBSD 2.1R likes it(mostly). > > I can now issue a "startx" command and get an X session, however if I try to > use one of the other window managers(fvwm, or ovwm), I get the following : > > TRANS(SocketINETConnect) () can't connect : errno=61 The 61 is connection refused - sounds like it's trying to connect to the wrong machine or something. > can't open display > > I will get this same series of error messages if I issue an "xhost +" command. > > I've tried setting the DISPLAY variable to several things( `hostname`:0.0, > unix:0.0, {hosts IP address}:0.0). What's different between tvwm(which I > believe startx uses by default) and the other wms ? > Try setting DISPLAY to :0.0 and see if that helps. Good luck Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06 . . . . . (Damn NNTP servers needing all these lines)